398 NOCTUiDji;, 



684. Agrotis treati. (riate LXX. fig. 10.) 



Agrctis treaii, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 186 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 71. 



(5 . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with red-brown and grey ; 

 palpi black, white at tips ; frons whitish, with black spots at sides ; 

 vertex and back of head with some black ; patagia with white 

 transverse lines; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men white irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish fuscous ; the 

 subbasal line black, defined by white on outer side, waved from 

 costa to vein 1, and followed by a black streak in submedian fold ; 

 the antemedial line pale, defined by black on each side, oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold and angled inwards on vein 1 ; the 

 claviform small, irregular, black ; orbicular and rcniform conco- 

 lorous with greyish outline, defined by black in the cell before and 

 between them and on outer edge of latter, both open above and 

 below ; postmedial line pale, defined on each side by black, excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; an irregular subterminal 

 series of small dentate black marks. Hind wing ochreous white 

 tinged with brown, especially on the veins and towards tcrmen ; 

 the underside with discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and 

 daik apical patch. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, 1 6 type. Exp. 38 millim. 



C85. Agrotis normaniana. (Plate LXX. fig. 11.) 



Agroiis vormaniamif, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent, Soc. v. p. 89 (1874) ; Smitli, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 71. 

 Agroiis ohtusa, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxvi. pp. 124, 126 (1875). 



Head and thorax grey, mixed with purplish brown and irroraled 

 with black; palpi black, white at tips; tarsi black, ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey-brown, tinged with rufous at sides and 

 extremity. Fore wing grey, more or less suffused with purple- 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line pale, defined 

 on each side with black and curved from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medialline pale, defined by black on each side, oblique, slightly 

 sinuous and excurved to inner margin ; the claviform represented 

 by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform grey 

 with black outlines, the former rather V-shaped, open above, the 

 latter open above and below and its outer edge broken up into 

 points, the cell before and between the stigmata dark brown ; a 

 waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; tlie 

 postmedial line pale, defined on each side by fuscous, minutely 

 waved, bent outwards below costa and sliglitly incurved below 

 vein 4, often with a series of black points beyond it ; a subterminal 

 line angled outwards below costa and excurved at middle, with 

 two small dentate black spots below costa ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing ochreous siiftuscd with fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous irrorated with brown ; 

 a dark discoidal luuulc and sinuous postmedial line. 



